I’d like to ask each and every Illinois politician and political candidate scrambling to condemn this past weekend’s outbreak of gun violence in Chicago to please shut up.

All of you. Please. You’re flapping your gums and pointing fingers and tossing out useless bromides and generally making nuisances of yourselves.

Take Democratic gubernatorial candidate J.B. Pritzker, who on Tuesday saw fit to leverage Chicago’s insanely violent weekend — 74 shot, 12 killed — to go after Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner, blaming the governor for the shootings. Pritzker said funding cuts to social service programs under Rauner’s watch have led to an uptick in gun violence across Illinois.

Please explain to me, Mr. Pritzker, how that’s helpful right now? I’m one of the last people anyone would expect to stand up for Rauner, and I agree that properly funded social service programs are a key to stemming violence in Chicago and elsewhere, but what good does a transparently political jab like that do in this moment?

I’ll answer that: None.

Rauner’s campaign called Pritzker’s comment “shameful,” and I agree. Unless your mouth is able to utter some sensible, well-thought-out, comprehensive solutions to a problem that has plagued Chicago for decades — a problem no politician or political candidate past or present has seen fit to properly address — then silence is your best option.

Mayor Rahm Emanuel is dispatching hundreds of additional police officers into the neighborhoods overwhelmed by recent shootings, and that’s good. He speaks with emotion I believe is sincere, and I don’t envy him the burden of being in charge of a city so violent.

But he also talks about “a shortage of values about what is right and what is wrong” and points fingers at neighborhoods where people rarely come forward to out the ones pulling triggers. They don’t come forward because they’re scared and don’t trust the police, and a lot of that is on you, Mr. Mayor, because you’re running the show.

How about a comprehensive plan? How about putting neighborhoods that are hope vacuums and dead-body factories ahead of improvements to the downtown Riverwalk? How about something besides a press conference when the heat gets turned up after a particularly bad weekend?

“We are better than what we saw,” Emanuel said.

What a useless, and factually incorrect, statement. Chicago is not better than what we saw this past weekend. Chicago is exactly what we saw this weekend, and it has been that way, with varying degrees of intensity, for ages.

I know it. The people hearing gunshots each and every day on the South Side or losing children on the West Side know it. And all these politicians who try to explain away the problem or find a quick fix or pounce on the issue to place blame on an opponent? They know it too.

And what they give us as a solution is either nonsense or goals devoid of specificity.

Former Chicago Public Schools CEO Paul Vallas, also a candidate for mayor, went after Emanuel for not having enough detectives to handle the city’s endless waves of shooting cases. He may well be right, but he’s addressing only a piece of a multipronged problem and doing so to serve his own ambitions, so it’s of little help to anyone else.

Another mayoral candidate, former Police Board President Lori Lightfoot, released a statement saying: “Taking on gun violence goes far beyond policing: It’s about ending poverty and reversing decades of disinvestment through quality schools, career training, social services, and jobs in neighborhoods that have been ignored for too long.”

Correct! But those are a bunch of words that Chicagoans dealing with “decades of disinvestment” have heard a thousand times before. How about a statement explaining, in great detail, how you would do all those things? How would you pay for them? Who are the smartest people you can find to advise you on those plans?

Absent that, Lightfoot’s statement is no more helpful than Pritzker’s finger pointing or McCarthy’s commentary on the mayor’s decision to dance.

There is no more important issue in this city than the number of people murdered each day.

Yet there’s no reason for any human being in Chicago to believe any politician has even the foggiest notion how to remedy the city’s deeply dug-in problem of gangs and poverty and gun violence, or even the inclination to honestly figure it out. To confirm that statement, just look at the number of homicides year in and year out in the same parts of the city.

The problem can be fixed, but not without an all-encompassing plan, a lot of money and a lot of time.

Our chattering politicos aren’t offering anything of consequence.

So I say to them, as nicely as possible: Please shut up. At least until you’re ready to actually do some good.